RFID Smart card and context aware products push notifications to smartphone

Abstract

The objective of the project is developing a context aware mobile application that will receive push notifications of promotions once a user is near a store, with the help of RFID inventory, WIFI technology, a database and a push notification server. When a shopper enters in a retail store, if the shopper is carrying an RFID shopping card in his/her pocket or wallet, the RFID system will detect that the shopper is within the store and will send push notifications of products in his/her Android smartphone. Using RFID technology shoppers can receive contextual timely information of the retail products with useful information such as product promotions, photos, discounts, etc. With this project we can improve the overall shopping experience, targeting different promotional/nnotifications to specific users, while being able to differentiate the users that will receive each different notifications with specific filters like context, user preferences, products, etc.